Whereas inducting leisure lawyer Allen Grubman — the famed legal professional for artists together with Bruce Springsteen and Mariah Carey — longtime buddy and shopper John Mellencamp took a second to make his phrases rely.
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Earlier than welcoming the “true mensch” to the stage to just accept his honor, Mellencamp stated, “Allen is Jewish, and I deliver that up for one motive: I’m a gentile, and my life has been enriched by numerous Jewish individuals.”
“I can not inform you how fucking essential it’s to talk out should you’re an artist towards antisemitism,” he continued. “I don’t give a f–ok, I don’t care [what you are]. Right here’s the trick: Silence is complicity. I’m standing right here tonight loudly and proudly with Allen, his household and all of my Jewish pals and the entire Jewish individuals of the world.”
“F–ok antisemtisim, and f–ok anyone who says something in that method.”
Mellencamp’s feedback come on the heels of antisemetic feedback made by Kanye West previously weeks, leading to him being dropped from numerous partnerships.
Grubman — together with Jimmy Iovine and Sylvia Robinson — was the recipient of the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
The 2022 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony, which occurred this yr in Los Angeles, will air Nov. 19 on HBO.
